Yale E360
JUNE 8, 2021
As part of a broader effort to create a circular economy that reduces waste and greenhouse gas emissions, the EU will ban a host of throwaway plastic items next month and is creating an expansive and lucrative market for recycled plastics. Read more on E360 ?.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 7, 2021
Electricity power plant emissions data and the latest assessments of fuel emissions and vehicle efficiency show 97 percent of people in the US live where driving an EV would produce fewer emissions than a 50 mpg gasoline car.
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Legal Planet
JUNE 7, 2021
Hurricanes Harvey and Maria. California wildfires. Superstorm Sandy. The great Texas blackout. The list goes on. These mega-events dramatize the need to improve our disaster response system. The trends are striking: escalating disaster impacts, more disaster clustering, more disaster cascades, and less predictability. We need to up our game. Lisa Grow Sun and I discuss the implications in a new paper , but here are a few of the key takeaways.
Circle of Blue
JUNE 7, 2021
Transcript. Welcome to “What’s Up With Water,” your need-to-know news of the world’s water from Circle of Blue. I’m Eileen Wray-McCann. In research news, a study has found that lakes across the Earth’s middle latitudes are being starved of oxygen, threatening aquatic life with suffocation. The study was published in the journal Nature. It showed that oxygen levels in lakes are decreasing, caused by a combination of factors.
Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions
In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.
Yale E360
JUNE 10, 2021
A recently released report on the 2018 grounding of a Russian ship in the Canadian Arctic points out the many dangers of a coming shipping boom in an increasingly ice-free Arctic, including the lack of reliable navigational charts and crews inexperienced in polar waters. Read more on E360 ?.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 8, 2021
The lack of a comprehensive and easily accessible federal database to track and publicly report fatal encounters with the police, excessive use of force, and other policing interactions has created a blind spot for police reform and accountability.
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Frontiers
JUNE 9, 2021
By Suzanna Burgelman, Frontiers science writer. Image: Oleksii Synelnykov/Shutterstock. A new study published by the open access publisher Frontiers is the first to research the link between functional brain network connectivity and behavioral temperament in newborns and one-month-old babies. The findings, which show that functional brain connectivity networks with behavioral relevance are already present in young infants, help further bridge the research gap between the human brain and our beha
Yale E360
JUNE 11, 2021
A new analysis from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) suggests that global sales of gas-powered cars likely peaked in 2017, marking a major milestone in the shift to electric vehicles. Demand for conventional vehicles fell in 2018 and 2019 before dropping sharply in 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic. While sales are likely to rebound as the pandemic ebbs, growing demand for plug-in vehicles means that gas-powered cars are almost certainly in "permanent decline," according to the report.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 9, 2021
I recently caught up with UCS Senior Engineer David Reichmuth to find out more about his new analysis on electric vehicles and ask his opinion on their short-term and long-term prospects.
New Scientist
JUNE 7, 2021
NASA took pictures of Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede with its Galileo and Voyager missions, and now it has returned for the first time in over two decades with the Juno mission
Speaker: Antoine M. Thompson, Executive Director of the Greater Washington Region Clean Cities Coalition
Diversity, Equity, Justice, and Inclusion (DEJI) policies, programs, and initiatives are critically important as we move forward with public and private sector climate and sustainability goals and plans. Underserved and socially, economically, and racially disadvantaged communities bear the burden of pollution, higher energy costs, limited resources, and limited investments in the clean energy and transportation sectors.
Physics World
JUNE 7, 2021
A compelling alternative explanation for what astrophysicists believe is the largest black hole merger measured to date has been put forth by two astronomers in Germany. Alexander Nitz and Collin Capano at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics argue that the gravitational wave GW190521 created by the merger could have been triggered by a stellar-mass black hole spiralling into a far larger body.
Inside Climate News
JUNE 11, 2021
New research on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet tracked the disintegration of a floating ice shelf and how that accelerated the flow of the Pine Island Glacier to the sea. By Bob Berwyn The Pine Island Glacier, sometimes called the “soft underbelly” of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, suddenly started moving about 10 to 12 percent faster between 2017 and 2020, as about 20 percent of its floating ice shelf broke apart in a series of large iceberg calving events.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 8, 2021
Extreme summer heat has arrived early in the United States. It’s 11 a.m. here in Massachusetts and the heat index, or “feels like” temperature, in my town is 97 degrees Fahrenheit and rising. I’m questioning writing this blog; it’s the third day with temperatures topping 90, which makes this an official heat wave and means […].
Scientific American
JUNE 9, 2021
Making peace with the biosphere will require building communities and relationships that are focused on protecting life—human and nonhuman. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
Speaker: Laurie Schoeman Director, Climate & Sustainability, Capital
As households and communities across the nation face challenges such as hurricanes, wildfires, drought, extreme heat and cold, and thawing permafrost and flooding, we are increasingly searching for ways to mitigate and prevent climate impacts. During this event, national climate and housing expert Laurie Schoeman will discuss topics including: The two paths for climate action: decarbonization and adaptation.
Physics World
JUNE 7, 2021
The magnetometers found in some smartphones could allow devices to be used to create a distributed space weather observatory. That is the conclusion of NASA’s Sten Odenwald , who has studied the ability of four popular models of smartphone to detect small disturbances to Earth’s magnetic field. Following the advent of the iPhone model 3GS in 2009, which contains a 3-axis Hall-effect magnetometer chip, such sensors have become commonplace in smartphone and some other consumer devices.
Environmental Leader
JUNE 9, 2021
In a U.S. first, the state of Maine has passed legislation – bill LD99 – directing the $17 billion Maine Public Employee Retirement System (PERS) to divest $1.3 billion from fossil fuels within 5 years and directs the Treasury to do the same with other state funds. The move makes. Read more ». The post Maine $17B Pension Fund Directed To Divest From Fossil Fuels appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 11, 2021
The Environmental Justice Legacy Pollution Cleanup Act would help address pollution that has been haunting environmental justice communities for decades.
Scientific American
JUNE 10, 2021
Drilling and refining has often come at the expense of Black communities, engulfing our neighborhoods with massive amounts of toxic pollution. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
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Physics World
JUNE 8, 2021
Biomedical sensors that actively monitor physiological signals from moving organs undergo large and cyclic deformations. To mechanically conform to the curvature of the organs and match their motion, such sensors typically feature thin designs to ease flexibility, and elastomer encapsulations to enhance stretchability. To boost the mechanical performance of tissue-interfaced wireless biomedical devices, a research team at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) replaced the conventi
Inside Climate News
JUNE 8, 2021
Climate change will exacerbate swings between droughts and floods in California and intensify competition for water. Can the state divert northern floodwaters to the thirsty south? By Liza Gross Farmers toil at the mercy of nature’s whims, which can prove particularly vexing in California.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 9, 2021
The G-7 Leaders’ Summit gets underway soon, from June 11-13, in Cornwall, UK. As host nation for this summit, and the annual climate talks later this year (also known as COP26), the UK will clearly be elevating the need for climate action, alongside dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic and trade issues. One priority that must […].
Scientific American
JUNE 10, 2021
An examination of the arguments that SARS-CoV-2 escaped from a lab in China and the science behind them. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
Physics World
JUNE 8, 2021
(Courtesy: University of Surrey). What skills do you use every day in your job? My career is somewhat unusual in that it really is a combination of several jobs, each requiring a different skill set. First and foremost, I am an academic physicist and with my university job I have the usual teaching, research and admin responsibilities. I have always enjoyed teaching and have lectured to undergraduates at the University of Surrey every year since 1992.
Enviromental Defense
JUNE 9, 2021
Toronto, Ont. – Ontario has launched the second phase of a program to expand fossil fuel gas pipelines to new communities. Instead of supporting viable and more cost-effective clean technologies like heat pumps, Ontario is spending more than $234 million to support approximately 8750 connections – a subsidy of over $26,000 per customer. This is a big subsidy for fossil fuels and a step in the wrong direction, when the government could have chosen to support clean technologies, help customers sav
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 8, 2021
The 2021 hurricane season just started, and it’s predicted to be an active one. My colleague Dr Adrienne Hollis just wrote about the major risks to the population in hurricane-vulnerable Gulf Coast counties. In addition to existing threats from winds, extreme precipitation, flooding, and storm surges, people in the Gulf Coast are now facing an […].
Scientific American
JUNE 7, 2021
The flyby will be the closest a spacecraft has come to the gas giant’s largest moon in 20 years. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
Physics World
JUNE 11, 2021
On 14–18 June Physics World is celebrating Quantum Week, so today’s Red Folder is celebrating the growing influence that quantum science and technology is having on society. The Canadian rapper and playwright Baba Brinkman is not a physicist, but that hasn’t stopped him from writing and recording this wonderfully clever rap about quantum computing. Called “Qubits”, the song is from his twelfth full-length album Bright Future , which also includes the tracks “Molten salt” and “Stirling engine”.
Earth 911
JUNE 9, 2021
Many power tools use batteries to run instead of corded electricity or the muscle of. The post Recycling Mystery: Rechargeable Tool Batteries appeared first on Earth911.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 7, 2021
Buy that air purifier now before they’re out of stock.
Scientific American
JUNE 9, 2021
The multibillionaire—along with his brother and at least one other passenger—could reach suborbital heights as soon as July 20. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
Physics World
JUNE 9, 2021
A striking similarity between flows of liquids and a hot, dense state of matter called a quark-gluon plasma (QGP) has been revealed in calculations done by Kostya Trachenko at Queen Mary University of London, Vadim Brazhkin at the Institute for High Pressure Physics near Moscow and Matteo Baggioli at the Autonomous University of Madrid. The trio’s analysis could lead to a new understanding of the QGPs generated in particle accelerators, as well as providing new insights into the conditions th
Enviromental Defense
JUNE 11, 2021
A new report showed that 60 per cent of products tested from Dollar Tree stores in the U.S. and Canada contained chemicals of high concern such as BPA, PFAS, lead and phthalates. This report was conducted by the U.S.-based Campaign for Healthier Solutions in partnership with Environmental Defence. Out of the 67 products sampled across Dollar Tree stores, 20 were purchased in Ontario.
New Scientist
JUNE 9, 2021
The most powerful microscopes have limited detail when they observe living cells, but a quantum trick with laser light has allowed researchers to overcome those limits
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